Netscape 6.1 530
max2010 writes: "Netscape Browser Version 6.1 is released.
Give it a try, grab the 25MByte junk of code for MAC, Unix and Windows at ftp.netscape.com." MSNBC has a brief story about the release.
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"
Re:Spelling error? NOT (Score:1, Funny)
Re:sweet god in heaven (Score:5, Funny)
8.2 MBs of browser, 6.8 MBs of Java and 10 MBs of a video clip of Steve Case jumping around like a monkey, screaming, "WOO! HOO! WAA! HAA! Look at me, I'm Steve Ballmer! HEE HEE!"
Re:fp! (Score:2, Funny)
6.1 was happening
CTO: What happen !!
ADMIN: Somebody set up us the crap.
USER: We get web page.
CTO: What !!
USER: Main browser turn on.
NETSCAPE: How are you gentlemen?
NETSCAPE: All your memory are belong to us.
NETSCAPE: You are on your way to crash.
CTO: What you say !!
NETSCAPE: You have no change to shutdown make your time.
NETSCAPE: Ha ha ha ha
USER: CTO !!
CTO: Take off every 'IE6' !!
CTO: You know what you doing.
CTO: Move 'IE6'.
CTO: For great browsing [microsoft.com].
Brilliant lead writing... (Score:5, Funny)
If it's the first one, doesn't that preclude the possibility of it being the final one?
I'm so confused.
Freudian slip? (Score:5, Funny)
Doesn't he mean "chunk" of code? Little Freudian slip there? :)
Re:notoriously buggy? (Score:3, Funny)
The point that he's trying to make is that by now, unless you have a major grudge against M$ (not that anyone on
Re:Why? (Score:2, Funny)
The only advantage I can think of is when you tell someone what browser you are using they don't say, "Huh, never heard of it!"
Spelling error? (Score:2, Funny)
Netscape was once the darling of open source, how times have changed.
I thought they said they were done with browsers? (Score:5, Funny)
Web developers rejoiced across the world on that day.
Re:Why? (Score:2, Funny)
PROGRAM-ID. SLASHDOT-COMMENT.
AUTHOR. SHEPD.
INSTALLATION. UNIVAC.
DATE-WRITTEN. THE-EPOCH.
DATE-COMPILED. NEVER DID GET IT TO DO THAT.
SECURITY. NONE.
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
DATA DIVISION.
FILE SECTION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 PLEASE-GOD-NO.
05 THEY-MADE-ME-DO-IT PIC X(3) VALUE "TRUE"
05 OUTPUT-STUFF PIC X(100000) VALUE SPACES.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
LET-ME-OUT-PROCEDURE.
IF THIS-LANGUAGE-SUCKS IS GREATER THAN OR EQUAL TO TRUE THEN
MOVE "COBOL" TO OUTPUT-STUFF
WRITE OUTPUT-STUFF AFTER ADVANCING 3 LINES
ELSE
MOVE "NOT COBOL" TO OUTPUT-STUFF
WRITE OUTPUT-STUFF AFTER ADVANCING 3 LINES
END IF.
END-LET-ME-OUT-PROCEDURE.
MOVE SPACES TO OUTPUT-STUFF
WRITE OUTPUT-STUFF AFTER ADVANCING 1 PAGE
STOP RUN.
Does that explain it? My College thought that Cobol would be a good skill to have when we graduate in 2002 so they figured they would make it a mandatory credit.
Instead I think it brain my damaged.
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Who truly needs a dictionary... (Score:3, Funny)
duuuuudes!
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It's emails like that that make Webster turn in his grave.